Henry Huntington: Human-Environment Interactions in the Arctic - 13 September 2016
Presentations
Why do people move to an eroding village? Why do fishermen go farther north in the Bering Sea in cold years? Why would hunters report an ecosystem in trouble when subsistence harvests are up? And what does AmazonPrime have to do with food security?
Research on human-environment interactions in the Arctic has demonstrated the strong connections between people and their ecosystems. But those connections do not always lead to the outcomes one might expect. In addition to examining the physical and biological aspects of Arctic change, we need more attention to the social dynamics that shape human responses to climate and other types of change.
This presentation will review some of the basics of what we know in these areas, and then discuss how to start studying the things we cannot yet explain.
